Re: HELP! please do not skip-help me decide if I should vbac or c-section? desperate

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Buenos Aires
Argentina

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>----- Original Message -----
From: "KMN" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list PREGNANCY-BIRTH"
<pregnancy-birth@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: HELP! please do not skip-help me decide if I should vbac or
c-section? desperate

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> I am 39 years old at 38 weeks pregnant and this is my second baby.  My
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> first baby was c-section due to fever with group b strep (after 12+
> hours ROM)and failure to progress past 8 cm.  She never came all the way
> down (was a bit tangled in cord and posterior).  I felt I was really
> rushed into that c-section and was never told how high the fever was
> (and was it really due just to the epidural).  Baby was totally fine.  I
> want to vbac, yet here are the things ONE of the docs of my group (the
> ultra conservative founder) is really concerned about-he really wants me
> to have a c-section: "Risk" factors: *group b strep positive again
> *vbac-risk of uterine rupture *had incarcerated uterus which was
> repositioned at 14 weeks *have a prominent sacral promontory *baby still
> high at 38+ weeks, and always is posterior *have history of sacro-iliac
> instability due to old back injury Do you see my history and current
> condition as that which strongly indicates a high risk for vbac
> delivery? I guess I am focused now on the sacral promontory issue-will
> that make me more likely to rupture due to uterus having to work any
> harder to get baby to negotiate the birth canal? I searched the archives
> and can find almost nothing regarding this issue.  I can not sleep for
> worrying about having another c-section that may be unnecessary.
> Thanks so much!!!!!!
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